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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Stop the Comcast/Time Warner merger

From the Free Press:

Comcast just announced that
it’s buying Time Warner Cable. If approved, this outrageous deal would
create a television and Internet colossus like no other. The fight to
stop this merger begins today. Comcast is the country's #1
cable and Internet company and Time Warner Cable is #2. Put them
together and you get a single giant controlling a massive share of our
nation’s TV and Internet-access markets.

No one woke up this morning
wishing their cable company was bigger or had more control over what
they watch and how they get online. But that's the reality we’ll face
unless the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission
do their jobs and block this merger. Stopping this kind of deal
is exactly why we have antitrust laws. After a year of sustained
organizing, we convinced the DoJ and the FCC to stop AT&T from
gobbling up T-Mobile. With your help we can stop this deal too.

This merger would put more
than a third of all cable-TV subscribers in Comcast’s hands and give it
control over more than half of the “triple-play” services that combine
TV, phone and Internet service. Don’t forget, Comcast already owns NBC,
MSNBC, Universal Studios and tons of cable networks. That means that for
most of America, Comcast could control even more of what you see and
how you see it. Putting this much power in
the hands of one company is dangerous. This deal would lead to less
consumer choice, less diversity and much higher cable bills.